A man survived unscathed after clinging to the outside of a German high-speed train as it barrelled along at up to 170mph (280km/h), police said on Friday.
The 40-year-old Hungarian man was having a cigarette on a platform in Bavaria when the train doors shut, prompting him to jump on to the bracket between two carriages.
The unidentified man told police he opted for the daredevil act because his luggage was still on the Intercity Express train headed cross-country from Munich to Lübeck.
He spent the next 20 miles gripping on to cables before the train was brought to a controlled stop after witnesses had spotted him and alerted authorities.
The man had boarded the train in Munich and had jumped back on between carriages in Ingolstadt. Police arrested him in the Bavarian town of Kinding before the train continued north.
The man was being investigated for financial impropriety since he did not have a valid ticket, federal police said, as well as for acts that disturb normal operations.
In 2017, a 59-year-old man likewise survived clinging to the side of the Hannover-Bielefeld Express train for 15 miles.
Police implored people to avoid similar “life-threatening nonsense”.
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